Mediaeval Temples of the Dakhan c13.s9.15

c13.s9.15

The exterior of the temple is fully moulded in horizontal bands of mouldings running round the whole of the walls, but there are no images, not even those three principal ones usually found upon the walls of the shrine. In this, as well as in temple No. 11 at Lonar, we find bands of chequered squares used in the ornament. That is, the surface of the stone is marked out into one inch squares, every alternate one being sunk. This was a favourite, and often characteristic ornament in very early temples, such as those of the Gupta period, but seems to have fallen out of use, in Western India at least, and not to have been used again until resuscitated in these very late shrines.